Whirling Sentence Examples

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  • Alex grabbed her arm as she passed, whirling her to face him.

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  • He faced her, eyes whirling madly.

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  • Whirling around to face her, he bellowed, Talk about this!

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  • He rose despite his whirling equilibrium.

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  • The wind had risen, the rain was blown in sheets, and the snow was whirling thickly on the mountains.

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  • Toby squealed again and bounced to his feet, beginning a whirling dance.

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  • I was still inside the office with the water whirling round me.

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  • Mew have a highly individual sound; their musical soundscapes evoke images of icy tundras and whirling snowstorms.

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  • Donald screamed a Fire spell at the whirling sword, creating a whirlwind of flames.

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  • I just whizzed around the place like a whirling dervish enjoying life to the full.

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  • Directly opposite the entrance two more doors could be glimpsed between the pipes, conduits and whirling wheels of the generators.

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  • The snow was getting heavier and heavier whirling around my face nearly blinding me.

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  • She forgot her shaky body and the whirling of her emotions and strode toward the door, intent on discovering if he had done this and if so, if he had more.

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  • Around the same time I actually went to see the festival of the whirling dervishes in Anatolia, in central Turkey.

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  • The whirling hygrometer offers the maximum level of accuracy due to the nature of measurement.

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  • Tho the tall buildings were almost useless in providing a refuge from the whirling Maelstrom of the heavens.

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  • Whirling through the water like a barrel comes a rotund ciliate which appears to have a long, narrow snout or nose.

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  • Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.

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  • A vortex is a rapidly whirling spiral, a body of fluid or gas rotating around its own center.

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  • The rising air condenses so that some of the water in the whirling mass falls as rain.

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  • The real language of computers is a whirling electromagnetic dance that no human will ever speak.

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  • Other behavioral characteristics include whirling, spinning, and occasionally autism or autistic-like behavior.

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  • Rhyn blocked a second blow that might.ve taken the assassin.s head off and shoved Darkyn before whirling to meet Gabriel.s blow.

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  • Lana held her breath at the whirling world, certain their death would at least be fast.

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  • He first undertook a preliminary inquiry into the principles upon which flight depends, and established at Allegheny a huge "whirling table," the revolving arm of which could be driven by a steamengine at any circumferential speed up to 70 m.

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  • This caused various lateral and contrary movements, resulting in a whirling movement (Slvn) resembling the rotation of Anaxagoras, whereby similar atoms were brought together (as in the winnowing of grain) and united to form larger bodies and worlds.

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  • Borne in a whirling chariot, and attended by the daughters of the sun, he reaches a temple sacred to an unnamed goddess (variously identified by the commentators with Nature, Wisdom or Themis), by whom the rest of the poem is spoken.

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  • And it's not exactly a safe job, to service those whirling blades... .

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  • When at last, smartly whirling his partner round in front of her chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, Natasha did not even make him a curtsy.

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  • He remembered the meadow, the wormwood, the field, the whirling black ball, and his sudden rush of passionate love of life.

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  • The characteristic moves Hadoken (Surge Fist, or Fireball), Shoryuken (Dragon Fist/Punch), and Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku (Hurricane Kick, or Whirling Leg Kick) were all present as they still are to this day.

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  • The most important mosques are the great Tekke, which contains the tomb of the poet Mevlana Jelal ed-din Rumi, a mystic (sufi) poet, founder of the order of Mevlevi (whirling) dervishes, and those of his successors, the "Golden" mosque and those of Ala ed-Din and Sultan Selim.

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  • Schrader that the form HEpcEpEES requires a passive meaning, "those who are carried round the altar," perhaps dancers like the whirling dervishes; distinguishing them from the Hyperboreans, he explains the latter as those who live "above the mountains," that is, in heaven.

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  • C. Greenhill treated the problem of the centrifugal whirling of an unloaded shaft with different supporting conditions in a paper On the Strength of Shafting exposed both to torsion and to end thrust, Proc. Inst.

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  • The interesting and important part of the investigation is that a number of experiments were made on small shafts arranged in different ways and loaded in different ways, and the speed at which whirling actually occurred was compared with the speed calculated from formulae of the general type indicated above.

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  • Although of reduced strength in the summer, they still suffice to dominate weather changes; it is during the approach of a low pressure centre that hot southerly winds prevail; they sometimes reach so high a temperature as to wither and blight the grain crops; and it is almost exclusively in connection with the cloudy areas near and south-east of these cyclonic centres that violent thunderstorms, with their occasional destructive whirling tornadoes, are formed.

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  • Sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of white foam on the waves of the Enns, an officer, in a cloak and with a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers' or company's baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on all sides, moved across the bridge.

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